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Monday, September 14, 2015

LE 14e MOIS DE LA PHOTO 10.09. - 11.10.2015

George S. Zimbel : a humanist photographer
Although not an official part of Le Mois de la Photo, the Museum is presenting a rare exhibition of the black and white photographs taken by the American born photographer who now is a Canadian. You will see never before revealed photos from the iconic MARILYN MONROE Seven Year Itch promotional event that caused quite a raucous in those days. The exhibition focuses on the streets of New York in the early fifties.

The upcoming artist is presenting a series of intriguing still life videos that mimic photographs of random objects. What I enjoyed was the extra-dimension his process adds to an otherwise banal style. The colors are dazzling. The artist told us he enjoyed the slow passage of time represented by his installations, that they were like going fishing, waiting for something to happen.

Since I have been on Facebook, I have experienced two deaths of very close relatives. In 2010, my brother Joe, and this summer, my cousin Joe. I keep coming up on posts where they commented, I have the last words they wrote to me on my wall. I have also seen and shared the loss of loved ones by my Facebook friends, the loss of beloved pets. This is what this installation is about. It is mesmerizing and effective. I do have one problem with it however, the screens are all set up so we must look up and strain our necks. It impedes the flow of the experience. The visit to the exhibition is free.Conversations about the Exhibition: AFTER FACEB00K: IN LOVING MEMORY < 3 SEPTEMBER 16, 2015 AT 6 P.M.
Discussion with the artitsts

The multidisciplinary artist presents several video installations that align with the concept of "catalogue aesthetic", which is a "massive compilation of images"that move very rapidly before our eyes, a signature of our era. All the installations are in constant colorful motion. The title is well suited to what you will experience with the work, a questioning of the substance we call reality.

When we walk into the projection room we are met by splashes of moving colors that evoke the ocean. The artist compiled one on top the other images collected on the internet of Black Friday in Edmonton, Alberta, where a tornado killed dozens of people and destroyed many homes on July 31 1987. In our time, the catastrophes that affect one part of the world or another become media spectacles, "disaster porn", manipulated to compel us to consume the news product. She used "datamoshing" to de-spectacularize the drama, turning it into an abstraction.

This exhibition is very neat. The artist looks at the classification techniques developed by law enforcement in the late XIX century but uses contemporary tools like Facebook to illustrate the various facial features, or images from iPhone or iPads screens to show the fingerprinting process. The title comes from Alphonse Bertillon, the inventor of forensic anthropometry, in his work "Manuel du portrait parlé".

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